Sunday, January 20, 2008 - Our Week Studying Storks
This week we did a unit and lapbook about storks from Homeschool Share. It wasn’t in my “Plan” (you know, the one that gets thrown to the wayside after just one week…) It started when we began reading a FANTASTIC book about children trying to entice storks into nesting in their little Holland town, The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong. My girls wanted MORE!
My girls (8 and 10 years old) learned all about stork classification, migration, diets, nesting habits, myths, etc. They read various books to research and complete the lapbook components.
8 yo read an early reader, Animal Groups by Burton, French, and Jones, about how the various animals are classified. Both girls read a chapter about wading birds in The Kingfisher First Animal Encyclopedia. They compared herons, bitterns, and storks.
Both girls read the chapter about storks in Birds Do The Strangest Things, and discussed how storks communicate with each other. They both acted out the bill-clattering, feather ruffling, tail shaking stork speak. 
I read to them The Question and Answer Book All About Animal Migration by John Sanders.
They both also read some fictional stories about storks. Both girls read three Aesop stories, The Farmer and the Stork, The Fox and the Stork, and The Frogs Asking for a King. 10yo also read The Storks by Hans Christian Anderson.
We traced the routes of White Storks on a world map, and also located the states in which Wood Storks live in. 8 yo made up a game with her Melissa and Doug United States magnet puzzle, putting all the states with storks in a pile and moving the storks from state to state. She also listened to her Twin Sisters cd about States and Capitals as she cleaned her room.
I think the highlight of the unit was the….Stork Stand!! The girls took turns trying to do the stork stand…after spinning in circles…with their eyes closed…
Because there was so much info to get into a lapbook, we decided that the girls would work on one together. We started out with just a file folder, but had to keep adding flaps to get everything in. Here are some pictures:
This is the cover.
When you open up the two cover flaps, this is what is underneath.
Lift up the center flaps, and this is what is underneath:
Well, there is always next week to get back to the “Plan”. Hmmm…now where did I put it…
Comments
Monday, January 21, 2008 - Very Fun !
Posted by AHappyHeart
That lapbook is museum quality ! Tell the girls it is one awesome book. I love the stork walk pictures too, it really looks hard and fun. I have the Wheel on the School but haven't read it, I'm going to bring it out for my group to chose from, it must be a really good read. Great week. : )
Love,
Susan
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - LOVE IT!
Posted by PeakmoreAcademy
love the lapbook! sure is a lot you all covered! pretty impressive.
we LOVED Wheel on the School book. We read it a few years back.
thanks for sharing! hope ya'll have a continued good week!
